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Lakeer – Forbidden Lines

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Lakeer
Directed byAhmed Khan
Written byAhmed Khan
Screenplay byAhmed Khan
Shadab Khan
Produced byVivek Kumar
StarringSunny Deol
Sunil Shetty
John Abraham
Sohail Khan
Nauheed Cyrusi
Apoorva Agnihotri
Raj Zutshi
Razak Khan
CinematographyJohny Lal
Music bySongs:
A. R. Rahman
Background Score:
Aadesh Shrivastava
Distributed byVicky Films
Release date
  • 14 May 2004 (2004-05-14)
Running time
168 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Lakeer – Forbidden Lines is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Ahmed Khan in his directoral debut .The film stars Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, John Abraham, Sohail Khan and Nauheed Cyrusi.[1] The music was composed by A. R. Rahman and the background score by Aadesh Shrivastava. The film was released on 14 May 2004.[2][3][4]

Plot

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Karan Rana (Sohail Khan) and Bindiya (Nauheed Cyrusi) are childhood friends and live with Karan's brother Arjun Rana (Sunny Deol), a very powerful and wealthy gangster. Arjun was actually adopted from the poor slums as a young boy by Suraj Rana and Karan is Suraj’s real son and Bindiya, the daughter of one of Suraj’s former colleagues. After both fathers passed away, Bindiya was adopted into Arjun’s household and he looked out for both her and Karan while growing up. Now, Karan's feelings for Bindiya are more than just of a friend; however, she is unaware of his feelings and falls in love with Saahil Mishra (John Abraham) gradually. Saahil comes from a low class society in the same slums that Arjun once grew up in and attends the same college as Karan and Bindiya.

One day, Karan sees a love letter by Saahil to Bindiya and tears it up. His friend Rony (Apoorva Agnihotri) humiliates Saahil about falling in love with Bindiya and being so poor. Saahil gets angry and tries to kill himself. However, when Saahil's brother Sanjay "Sanju" Mishra (Sunil Shetty), who is a car mechanic, finds him unconscious and badly wounded, he cannot control his anger and goes looking for Rony. However, when Sanju gets to the college, he sees Karan sitting down, wearing Rony's jacket with his name on the back, and starts beating him up in public. Karan is hospitalized when Sanju finds out that he has beaten Karan and not Rony. Arjun wants to seek revenge against Sanju for badly beating up his younger brother. However, Arjun is unaware of Bindiya's feelings for Saahil and Karan's for Bindiya. Saahil advises Sanju to give up his violent ways. Sanju hands himself to Arjun and gets badly beaten up by his men. Saahil apologizes to Sanju and decides to leave Bindiya.

One month later, Saahil starts working in a cafe. Bindiya tries to meet Saahil every day, but he escapes every time, but soon, Bindiya and Saahil fall in love again. Sanju also approves of her. Meanwhile, Karan returns from the hospital and decides to meet Arjun and tell him about his love. Arjun is happy to know that Karan is in love with Bindiya. That night, Rony challenges Saahil for a fight. Saahil beats up Rony brutally.

Meanwhile, Karan proposes to Bindiya at a derelict church where she believes that a party for his recovery is held. But this is just a ruse as he only arranged it for him and Bindiya only along with a bunch of presents and cards inside. She tells him that she considers Karan as a best friend but loves Saahil. Karan becomes furious. After beating Rony, Saahil takes his gun to kill Karan. Sanju enters Arjun's bungalow to tell Arjun about Karan's reality. He beats up all his goons. Arjun cannot control his anger and starts beating up Sanju. Rony then comes to Sanju's aid and confirms the truth about Karan to Arjun. Karan's love turns into a deadly obsession, and he forces Bindiya to marry him on the spot. Saahil then reaches there, and eventually, a dangerous fight ensues between Saahil and Karan. Karan hits Saahil repeatedly with an iron rod in the face and knocks him unconscious. Arjun comes there to rescue Bindiya and talk to Karan. Karan shoots Sanju's arm, while Saahil regains consciousness. Karan is just about to shoot Bindiya and Saahil, but Bindiya tells Karan that she hates him because of his actions. Arjun shoots Karan with tears in his eyes, while the latter dies on the spot. Arjun takes Karan's body to the church and is heartbroken and guilt-ridden that he did not want to kill his brother, despite being wrong. Saahil, Bindiya, and Sanju apologise to and pacify Arjun, saying that he was not wrong but Karan was.

Cast

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Soundtrack

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Lakeer - Forbidden Lines
Soundtrack album by
Released6 January 2004 (2004-01-06) (Digital Release)
14 May 2004 (2004-05-14) (Film)
Recorded2000 ("Paighaaam" song only)
2003 (Rest of all the songs)
StudioPanchathan Record Inn
GenreFilm soundtrack
LabelT-Series
ProducerA. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman chronology
Udhaya
(2003)
Lakeer - Forbidden Lines
(2004)
Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities
(2004)

The music was composed by A. R. Rahman.

Rahman reused three songs from his earlier film,Rhythm, with only four new songs composed, due to a lack of time. The songs of Rhythm were inspired from the 5 elements of the world. Rahman did not compose the background score, for which Aadesh Shrivastava took over, since he was busily involved in several other projects. This makes Lakeer Rahman's only Hindi film project to date featuring him solely on the soundtrack, excluding capacity duties as a guest composer for the 2018 biographical drama Sanju.

Originally, "Paighaam" was supposed to appear in the Tamil film Rhythm but was cut due to cancellation of the Hindi dubbed version's release.

Song Artist(s) Notes Pictured On
"Nachley" Daler Mehndi, Kunal Ganjawala Reused "Taniye Tananthaniye" from Rhythm Filmed on Sunil Shetty and John Abraham
"Paighaam" Kavita Krishnamurthy, Shaan, Reused "Kaatre En Vasal" from Rhythm Filmed on John Abraham and Nauheed Cyrusi
"Sadiyaan" Udit Narayan, Hariharan, Madhushree, Kailash Kher, Karthik Filmed on Sohail Khan, Nauheed Cyrusi, and John Abraham
"Offho Jalta Hai" Asha Bhosle, Sonu Nigam Reused "Ayyo Pathikichu" from Rhythm Filmed on Nauheed Cyrusi, John Abraham, and Sohail Khan
"Rozana" Viva
"Shehzaade" Kunal Ganjawala Filmed on Sunny Deol and Sohail Khan

Reception

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NowRunning gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, "Regrettably the scriptwriter goes back to every mafia movie you've seen from Scarface to Vaastav to Gang without bothering to put a fresh spin into the genre".[5] Planet Bollywood gave the film 7 out of 10 stars, praising the cast performances but criticised Sunny Deol's overshadowment in the second half.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Lakeer Movie: Showtimes, Review, Trailer, Posters, News & Videos | eTimes", The Times of India, retrieved 13 May 2020
  2. ^ "Lakeer ? The Forbidden Lines". Sify. Archived from the original on 29 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Lakeer Review 2/5 | Lakeer Movie Review | Lakeer 2004 Public Review | Film Review". Bollywood Hungama. 14 May 2004.
  4. ^ "Lakeer: Beyond the pale".
  5. ^ "Lakeer Review | Lakeer Hindi Movie Review by IANS". 15 January 2004.
  6. ^ "Lakeer - movie review by Abid - Planet Bollywood".
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